Crossfire Mobos

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zappa86

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Sorry if this is a dumb question:

Ive been reading about crossfire from ATI's website. Now they say something like "get a crossfire compatible motherboard with ATI xpress 200 chipset." But I was just putzing around newegg.com looking at mobos. And I see some mobos with xpress200 chipset but they only have 1 PCI express 16 card slot. So i'm not really sure. dont they need two PCIex16?
 
It's not just the chipset, but the CrossFire feature that you are looking for. Yes, it'll require two PEG (PCI-E Graphics Slots or x16 slots) for this feature to work.

Currently no CrossFire boards are avialable for purchase at this time. It's rumored that it may be offically launched with availability for purchase during an event in Australia towards the end of August. Remember this is speculation, but until they are available for purchase, all the Xpress 200 chipset boards that you can currently find are not CrossFire.
 
Yikes...from that review, it looks like ATI better come out with the r520 at the same time because a single 7800GTX is an equivalent performer :eek: .
 
if you like to OC, put your hard hat on. ;)
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hopefully by the end of august.
 
That board looks nice. Has anyone heard of any ASUS boards for crossfire?
 
No dates for Crossfire yet. Quite frankly, I have never seen it work first hand. Here is an excerpt from a PR that I got today.

Newegg's LANfest 2K5, this July 30-31st in Pasadena CA announces new technologies for gamers to try out on the 15,000 square foot exhibitor's floor.

- ATI will bring Crossfire into public view for the very first time. CrossFire ignites an entirely new gaming experience by accelerating all your games, all the time, with the power of multiple GPUs within a single PC. It provides the highest image quality and screen resolutions even with the most demanding 3D titles. When gamers add a CrossFire Edition graphics card, which includes the CrossFire compositing engine, to their Radeon Xpress powered system they are doubling their graphics rendering potential. With a variety of settings, they can use the rendering horsepower to get up to twice the performance of a single graphics card, or they can choose to put the horsepower to work increasing the
image quality of their games, making them look better than ever before.
 
Well, it's really not that easy producing a card that provides up to 2x the performance, if that's true ofcourse.

They have many things to work on including a chipset and newer technology for their GPU's.

I can't wait till Monday to read all about the Lan, the pictures and the experiences.
 
where did u find that dfi crossfire mobo? i would like for u to give me an url to get me there pls. :D
 
itll be out the week after the AGP 939 board :)

Seriously though, SLI is cool if you have a 2405 or something, but who can really tell the difference between say 1280x1024 with everything and 4xAA and with 8xaa? I mean playing, not just in pictures.
 
Sir-Fragalot said:
For a feature ATi touted as being "built into every GPU in the Radeon series from the start" it is sure odd they need a "master" card and its taking them forever and six days to get Crossfire done and out to the public.
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This was in reference to the "SuperTiling" function, but obviously not in regards to the compositing of the images. The "Master" card has the compositing chip on it that takes the images from the slave card and merges them for a single display with the full detail.

The funny part about how they stated this is the same as if nVIDIA said that SLI was provided since the Riva series of cards :D

But we aren't supposed to ask these questions are we? Makes the Hype not so hypiee.
 
What was the high-end/low-end master card coming out again? Was it a X800XL and a X850XT?
 
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